US Patent Issued to STYRA on April 29 for "Leveraging standard protocols to interface unmodified applications and services" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,906, issued on April 29, was assigned to STYRA INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Leveraging standard protocols to interface unmodified applications and services" was invented by Timothy L. Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.) and Teemu Koponen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for enforcing policies for authorizing API (Application Programming Interface) calls to an application operating on a host machine. The method receives a request to authenticate a client attempting to gain access to the application, and authenticates the client based on a first set of parameters associated with the request. Usin...